Example sentences of "the first victims [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tend to be the first victims of clean-sweep company shake-ups and takeovers . |
| 2 | It might be that this girl was a con woman and he and Camb the first victims of a colossal deception . |
| 3 | It seems that the Sultan was one of the first victims of non-standardization ; he paid a thousand dollars for a machine for which only one cylinder was ever made ! |
| 4 | Among the first victims of the reform were the larger German-owned estates that now fell within Poland . |
| 5 | All three of you are going to be the first victims of the Kershaw Worm . ’ |
| 6 | A RARE movie — the mainly horrible How The West Was Won is another — that tries to include the whole arc of the West in its plot , expending its first hours on the virgin land as Kevin Costner communes with nature and Indians , but the finale has to admit the good days are gone , as demonstrated by the coming of the brutish cavalry intent on making the Sioux the first victims of the expansionist whites . |
| 7 | The NRA argues that women are the first victims of the collapse of the criminal-justice system , and the message seems to be getting through : gun-dealers say that their fastest-growing market is among women . |
| 8 | A car bomb injured 12 people , five of them soldiers , in Valencia on Dec. 20 , the first victims of an ETA attack in the city . |
| 9 | The three , all of whom faced corruption allega-tions , were among the first victims of the newly elected government 's avowed determination to combat official malpractice . |
| 10 | The Alliance of Small Island States , which includes Cyprus , Malta , the Caribbean islands , Maldives , Seychelles , and many Pacific territories , fear that they may become the first victims of global warming . |
| 11 | One of the first victims of teenage burn-out , she is now confronted with the world of graphite power play wherein the women now hit the ball harder than the men did 30 years ago with the old wooden rackets . |
| 12 | Some of the first victims to be helped came from the war-torn streets of Greece … |